Does the leak change your mind about buying the album?

[Jamie]

I want the album now! the leak has made me want it even more

[taxexile]

I'm quite sure it has; I suspect it's going round with rapidshare or megaupload links as I can't find any hint where to find it. I do hope I don't need kazaa!

[Frozendiva]

Nope, whether I ever access the leak or not, I still plan to get the CD. The UK version. Not the crappy North American JFPL I ended up with first last year.

[napnet86_]

Originally Posted by taxexile

I do hope I don't need kazaa!

Is that still going?

I'm still looking forward to receiving the single then both the standard and deluxe albums through the mail.

[Frozendiva]

Napnet86, me too. I still love opening a new album or CD and looking at the design, the artwork, the sleeve, the lyric booklet, etc. And then listening to it.

[Lauren Cinnamon]

Not changed my mind, if I care enough to download a leak I care enough to have already paid to preorder it! I wouldn't not buy an album cos the leak was shite, anyway, I'd feel mean. A fair amount of my enjoyment of albums is the case and the pretty pictures and lyrics - I haven't even played some of the actual physical CDs of my favourite albums (I listen online instead.) Vinyl is different as I like the whole thing of getting it out and trying not to scratch it when I drop the needle, but CD is exactly the same to me on the computer or in the CD player.

Anyway it's not shite. Not that I've heard it, like.

[sculptureofabloke]

Originally Posted by Lauren Cinnamon

Anyway it's not shite. Not that I've heard it, like.

[Lee]

Nope, no Manics leak has ever stopped me from buying their albums.

Other bands however...

Nah seriously I couldn't not buy a new Manics album. Swinging into HMV on a Monday lunch hour to pick it up, sticking it in the car on the way back into work, reading the booklet when I get home...

Wouldn't seem right.

Good to have an album so soon after JFPL.

[workingclasshero]

I'll also be buying it. Be nice to hear the album sooner though, just to give me a chance to learn all the lyrics so I can sing my wee heart out at the Cambridge CE in November.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

If I had heard the leak I would still buy it, just for sound quality reasons. You can never be sure until you get the shiny discs.

[franny]

Aye, shiny discs sound brill, leaks have been known to be of lesser quality.

[kitz]

No, it doesn't. I'll definitely buy the album

[Ken Korda]

Still getting the Vinyl and Deluxe.

I'm sick, clearly.

[comradestripe]

Originally Posted by franny

Still gonna buy it, I buy many shit albums anyway but this isn't shit at all. Enjoy Snow Patrol though I warn you not to get the first 2 'early' albums, they're not 'for the real fans', they're just shit.

I think you've got that the wrong way around. When It's All Over...is great if you put effort into it. That and Final Straw - and, to some extent Songs For Polarbears - are Snow Patrol's brilliant albums.

I won't listen to the album before it's released but I'm tempted not to get it on its day of release. The last album I did that with (i.e. not buy it on the day of release) was Lifeblood, though, and I ended up loving that.

[Lauren Cinnamon]

Originally Posted by comradestripe

I think you've got that the wrong way around. When It's All Over...is great if you put effort into it. That and Final Straw - and, to some extent Songs For Polarbears - are Snow Patrol's brilliant albums.

Yeah the first two albums are great! I defy anyone to dislike An Olive Grove Facing the Sea, in particular.